Mike.Miller@f210.n110.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Miller) (02/21/90)
To anyone who is interested or is having problems with gurus while attempting to run any MSS Softwae, ie Excellence, Works Platinum, Platinum Scibble on an Amiga 2000 equiped with an A2091 controller. MSS stated that when the 2091 is fully populated with memory their products will not work on the system, they blame this on C= and stated that they will not fix the problem, as it is C='s they did offer this little tid bit, "before running our software, run this little basic program, POKE L 0,0 and then this will fix C='s problem"...by the way, it took two days to get ahold of them, no one was answering the phone....Mike -- ------------------------------------------------- Mike Miller - via FidoNet node 1:110/300 UUCP: uunet!dayvb!afitamy!210!Mike.Miller ARPA: Mike.Miller@f210.n110.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------| >>>> The // Air Force Institute of Technology | > // Amiga Users BBS/UFGateway | > \ // Dayton, Ohio (513)-252-7681 | > X/ 1:110/300 | -------------------------------------------------|
es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (02/25/90)
In article <119.25E527A9@afitamy.fidonet.org> Mike.Miller@f210.n110.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Miller) writes: >To anyone who is interested or is having problems with gurus while >attempting to run any MSS Softwae, ie Excellence, Works Platinum, >Platinum Scibble on an Amiga 2000 equiped with an A2091 controller. MSS >stated that when the 2091 is fully populated with memory their products >will not work on the system, they blame this on C= and stated that they >will not fix the problem, as it is C='s they did offer this little tid >bit, "before running our software, run this little basic program, POKE L >0,0 and then this will fix C='s problem"...by the way, it took two days >to get ahold of them, no one was answering the phone....Mike > >------------------------------------------------- >Mike Miller - via FidoNet node 1:110/300 >UUCP: uunet!dayvb!afitamy!210!Mike.Miller >ARPA: Mike.Miller@f210.n110.z1.FIDONET.ORG >-------------------------------------------------| MSS seems to have a poor concept of customer/tech support. How long has Excellence been out without a significant upgrade? They certainly charge enough for the product you'd expect them to support it! As you say they are hard to reach. It might be Commodore, but even so, they should fix their product! Giving people some poke program is only very mildly acceptable, if that. -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Compu$erve : 70137,3271 Anyone giving away Amigas or Sharp Scanners???
DDRAKE@AUVM.BITNET (02/25/90)
I read in a posting to a local bbs that mss will have an upgrade out soon. This is a rumour of th nth degree.
rickf@pnet01.cts.com (Rick Flower) (02/25/90)
Mike.Miller@f210.n110.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Miller) writes: >To anyone who is interested or is having problems with gurus while >attempting to run any MSS Softwae, ie Excellence, Works Platinum, >Platinum Scibble on an Amiga 2000 equiped with an A2091 controller. MSS >stated that when the 2091 is fully populated with memory their products >will not work on the system, they blame this on C= and stated that they >will not fix the problem, as it is C='s they did offer this little tid >bit, "before running our software, run this little basic program, POKE L >0,0 and then this will fix C='s problem"...by the way, it took two days >to get ahold of them, no one was answering the phone....Mike > Well, I've got a A2091 controller that I recently got and I've not had any problems running MSS Software (I've got Excellence!). It sounds like you've got the card populated with memory though -- I don't have any memory in mine yet.. > >-- >------------------------------------------------- >Mike Miller - via FidoNet node 1:110/300 >UUCP: uunet!dayvb!afitamy!210!Mike.Miller >ARPA: Mike.Miller@f210.n110.z1.FIDONET.ORG >-------------------------------------------------| >>>>> The // Air Force Institute of Technology | >> // Amiga Users BBS/UFGateway | >> \ // Dayton, Ohio (513)-252-7681 | >> X/ 1:110/300 | >-------------------------------------------------| UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!rickf ARPA: crash!pnet01!rickf@nosc.mil INET: rickf@pnet01.cts.com
bleys@tronsbox.UUCP (Bill Cavanaugh) (02/25/90)
Hmmm... unless I misremember my Basic, POKEL writes a long word to an area
of memory. POKEL 0,0 would write zeros to memory location zero. That sound
familiar to anybody? :)
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************************************************************/limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) (02/28/90)
If you are having a clash with MSS software and a 2091 or A590 that means that you don't have the lastest driver software for the 2091/A590. The old software included some debugging stuff that poked a non-zero value into memory location 0 to catch certain programmer errors that C programmers make every once in a while. It doesn't hurt the 2091/A590 software (of course! it's there to make sure that C-A didn't fall into that programming error) but the MSS software does get effected. So, basically this means that C-A's software is causing a problem for programs that are not well-behaved. But luckily C-A has an update that doesn't include this *accidental* "feature". -Tom -- Tom Limoncelli The computer industry should spend more time in front of tlimonce@drew.uucp their computers. Remember when "Look & Feel" tlimonce@drew.Bitnet was what you tried to do on a date? limonce@pilot.njin.net